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- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
the month" motivate higher performance? Not really—and they may turn off your best employees altogether. Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill Everyone comes to the table with some amount of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Health Care - Faculty & Research
non-financial reward. The analysis yields three main findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
formed a relationship. The authors chose to focus on patient ratings of specialists instead of specific medical outcomes because they assess an “important dimension of quality” that transcends the clinical boundaries of medical specialties and are View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
future value proposition for consumers reconcile with the financial sustainability of restaurants and the well-being of employees? Will consumers be willing to pay more to help ensure fair wages and restaurant viability overall? “We have... View Details
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
most widespread is that power is dirty. But power isn’t intrinsically good or bad; the dirtiness is not in power itself, but in us. It is up to every one of us how to acquire power and for what purposes we want to use it. What was your... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
of bank teller to become chairman of Zions Bancorporation in Salt Lake City, with teaching him that ethical standards are an intrinsic part of doing business. "He measures his performance in terms of doing the right thing and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
Recognize and activate their influence Innovators have the most to gain from the intrinsic value of the innovation and are most enthusiastic about adopting it early. There is also the extrinsic View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
a valuation objective, are critical features of an economic GAAP. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
assets, people assets, or relationship assets—that they find difficult to change and that creates a structural inertia. Ultimately, it's the people in a company who are intrinsic to both developing and executing good strategy, so I called... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
maintained their vision of an intrinsically shared humanity and the environmental responsibility found at the core of Indigenous mythology. Building off a deep personal connection to the history and mythology of the First Peoples of the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
and the multiple purposes for which goals are used, including planning, coordination, motivation, and evaluation. We explain why performance goals must pass three important tests: alignment with strategy, measurability, and linkage to economic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
alternative valuation ratios or perform detailed intrinsic valuation analyses, Wang advises. Specifically: Consider a broad set of metrics. Investors who rely on valuation ratios to identify value stocks... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
fun because it's really hard work, they still have a deep level of attachment to their work. And you see that repeatedly with Irving. It's obvious that he just can't imagine himself doing anything else. That's a hallmark of outstandingly creative individuals. View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
are markets where there is not necessarily intrinsic value to the products themselves.” “These are markets where there is not necessarily intrinsic View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market
stumbles in dealing with public opposition," says Oberholzer-Gee. He and HBS collaborator Dennis Yao, the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, have developed a diagnostic tool to help companies assess the value that... View Details
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
take into account such factors as the number of years until the option expires, prevailing interest rates, the volatility of the stock price, and the stock's dividend rate. Fixed value plans are popular today. That's not because they're... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
Making Sense of Past and Present
entrepreneurs managed through many tricks and traps to write the untold rules of capitalism. Professor Jones’s course also pushed me to deeply think about my intrinsic values as a leader and entrepreneur.... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who don't compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. Fortunately, such leaders do exist. Their insights can help other organizations weather the current crisis,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
agents, for whom the relative value of the reward is higher. Second, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not appear to crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. Third,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
a network of people who analyze, critique and place artwork in context, and are able to not only talk about the aesthetic richness of a piece at present, but also its historical value and place in the art world¹s hierarchy and development... View Details